The Microsoft Developer Network has opened a new blog that has already gained plenty of popularity – ‘Engineering Windows 7′ – and it deals with the development process of Windows 7, while listening for feedback from fans.

The listening ear of Microsoft has opened at blogs.msdn.com/e7/ where two senior engineering managers, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky are posting information on the process of engineering Windows 7 and listening to suggestions and questions from the audience.

According to the two bloggers, the Windows operating system is assigned to a variety of teams, and each time consists of about 40 developers. These teams have remained fairly consistant over the years, and some of the large teams include:

• Applets and Gadgets
• Assistance and Support Technologies
• Core User Experience
• Customer Engineering and Telemetry
• Deployment and Component Platform
• Desktop Graphics
• Devices and Media
• Devices and Storage
• Documents and Printing
• Engineering System and Tools
• File System
• Find and Organize
• Fundamentals
• Internet Explorer (including IE 8 down-level)
• International
• Kernel & VM
• Media Center
• Networking – Core
• Networking – Enterprise
• Networking – Wireless
• Security
• User Interface Platform
• Windows App Platform

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